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"Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, [the film] covers three days in the lives of a trio of high-flying circus performers, headlined by former WWII fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne. Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show"--Container.
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Tiger Kid is an up-and-coming boxer who's concentrating on the wrong kind of "knockout"--The electrifying Ruby Carter (West). When Tiger's manager tricks Ruby into leaving town, she travels to New Orleans to headline with Duke Ellington and his orchestra at Ace Lamont's Sensation House. But Ace has eyes for Ruby's diamonds and plots a robbery. As always, Mae outsmarts her adversaries and proves she has no intention of losing her jewels, or her man....
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Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.
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Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
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Johnny O'Clock: "Johnny O'Clock ... is a junior partner is a posh casino with Guido Marchettis ... but is senior in the eyes of Nelle, Guido's wife and Johnny's ex. This love triangle leads to a web of complications, leaving Police Inspector Koch ... to unravel the threads of deceit and a murdered casino employee's sister ... to tug on Johnny's heartstrings"--Container.
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Andre Morestan is the owner of a bicycle shop in Paris, serving jury duty for the first time. When Natalie Roguin, a homeless girl accused of murder, is found innocent, Andre feels sorry and invites her into his home. Andre's son, Pierre, immediately becomes smitten with Natalie and starts committing small crimes to aid in the couple₂s engagement, causing Andre to wonder if Natalie isn't all that innocent in the first place.
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Coroner Creek (1948): In a departure from his usual roles as an upright hero with an inviolate moral code, Scott plays a man hell bent to avenge the murder of his fiancée, no matter the cost. Starring Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman and George Macready. Color film directed by Ray Enright.
The walking hills (1948): A lust for gold drives a ragtag band of travelers into the shifting sands of Death Valley, where their true characters will be revealed....
11) Saskatchewan
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While returning from outpost duty, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector O'Rourke happens upon Grace Markey, the sole survivor of a vicious Indian attack. Upon hearing her story, the naive Mounty Commander Benton believes the Cree are on the war path, not realising the Sioux have set up the confrontation in order to gain allies against the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Only O'Rourke knows the truth and must mutiny in order to save his men and the woman he has...
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Lynn Markham, a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber who may be harboring a sinister secret.
14) Woman in hiding
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A women discovers on her honeymoon that her husband may have killed her father, and now wants to kill her.
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